Languages & Creativity: Identity and multilingualism in South Tyrol

by Jamie Green, July 20th 2019
It’s hard to think of two people with more different backgrounds than Sebastiano Vassalli and Alexander Langer. The former was an Italian-speaking novelist from northern Italy who had yet to visit South Tyrol before he travelled to the province to research Sangue e suolo in the mid-1980s. The latter was a political campaigner who, although he spoke...

New developments in store for online multilingualism, EU’s Navracsics says

Source: Euractiv.com, 2 July 2019
The diversity of European languages in use online could be improved in the near future, the EU’s Commissioner for Education and Culture, Tibor Navracsics told EURACTIV amid criticism that progress with online multilingualism in Europe has been “frustratingly slow”.
While the EU has done much to bolster the bloc’s availability of languages online,...

I don’t “speak white”. Multilingualism is my identity

Being multilingual can be a stronger part of one's identity than race
By Susanna Zaraysky - July 15, 2019
For those of us who are bilingual or multilingual, our languages may shape our identities and cultural affiliations more so than race, economic status or religion.
With about 20% of children in the US population speaking another language at home, and more kids going to...

The English language is evolving – here’s how it will change after Brexit

The Conversation, 4 juillet 2019
Britain is facing an uncertain future and an uneasy relationship with Europe after Brexit. Among other things, the country’s woeful inability to learn languages has been raised as a key stumbling block – with the decline in foreign language learning among school and university students across the UK also raising alarm.
English is one of the official...